Possible Clues:

• They produce fibre for long bows reportedly
• Bamboozled
• Sounds like what one might employ for the flock
• Sounds as if one might find employment for them with the flock
• Sounds as if one may employ them, even though they'll have a bleat
• Baaing belles
• Fleecy meadow grazers
• Animals befriended by Babe
• Bleating mothers
• Fleece sources